Vintage Live: 1975 (1998)

About this title: This medium to lo-fi live club recording (location and exact date unspecified) finds Piazza and a young, enthusiastic band playing it by the record collection as they mine their way through ten Chicago blues classics. With Hollywood Fats on guitar and former Canned Heat bassman Larry Taylor, the licks are suitably retro and blues-approved, as Piazza devotes over half the set to letter-perfect re-creations of Little Walter staples like "My Babe," "Oh Baby," "Key to the Highway," "Mellow Down Easy," "I Had My Fun," and "Mean Old World." Piazza extends the Walter approach to include like-minded ... read more

Tracks:

1. Oh Baby [Little Walter/Dixon]
2. Key to the Highway [Broonzy/Segar]
3. Mellow Down Easy [Dixon]
4. Standing Around Crying [Waters]
5. I Had My Fun [Oden]
6. Rocking Daddy [Burnett]
7. Mean Old World [Little Walter]
8. Take a Walk With Me [Lockwood]
9. My Babe [Dixon]
10. Third Degree [Boyd/Dixon]

Note: This is a general synopsis. Each listing is further described below.